Something you're not likely to see from me again soon

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 03:34 PM 6/4/01 +0000, justin wrote:
>And sociology is an exercise in experience unencumbered by imagination . . . 
>. Hey, W., don't read philosophy if you don't like to; it's not obligatory, 
>but writing off whole traditions of human inquiry as second rate versions of 
>something else is sort of dumb. --jks

Let's see.  For about 2000+ year philosophers talked about "universal
truths and categories." Then, circa 1990 comes a sociologist by the name
Emile Durkheim and sez that all those "universals" are but reifications of
th eorganization of society - which was a genuinely original solution of
the centuries old puzzle regarding the universals (which oscillated between
the individual and the universe, missing the society in between).  And who
is thinking "in a box" here?

wojtek